Sedona is Dead - What options for Oracle8 Objects?

[Quoted] [Quoted] Why did Oracle officially kill off the Sedona project forever? It would seem they will lose a huge amount of credibility over this. Especially with all the hype of the object-relational Oracle8 DB.

What options are available now (besides a hell of a lot of C programming) for developing object-oriented apps utilising oracle8?

Are Oracle serious about furthering object extensions to the DB if they can't be bothered providing a development environment to utilise them? Has it all become too hard for Oracle? They surely can't be serious about their excuse for dropping Sedona in that it would compete against Developer 2000. I would of thought it would be a golden opportunity to get even more market share. I don't expect Developer 2000 will provide a platform for developing scalable 3-tier C/S apps in the near future so I just don't understand their decision. Are they banking everything on NCA? - geez, I hope not!

Seems to me they're going to let the market decide if there's any future in the object-relational model by waiting to see what take up there is by customers of third-party products utilising oracle8 objects. They could well write-off the object extensions as a failed experiment sometime down the track. Lets face it, it would be several releases (8.3?) before the object extensions actually become useful for any real object-oriented development as there are some important features missing such as inheritance.

Unless you have some dramatically big VLDB's or performance issues with your DB, I can't imagine why anyone would be in a hurry to go to Oracle8. Received on Mon Aug 18 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST